{"id":5606,"date":"2020-11-18T17:50:07","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T17:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=5606"},"modified":"2020-11-18T17:57:06","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T17:57:06","slug":"les-arenes-nimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/18\/les-arenes-nimes\/","title":{"rendered":"Les Arenes (Nimes)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A statue of a brave bullfighter<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stands outside of this arena<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is said that he defeated six bulls singlehandedly<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But that was long ago and today the arena is empty<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Save for a few tourists and their guides<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As I pass the arena I note a colourful poster promoting<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Future pop concerts and other events<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For some reason I think of the early Christians<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Who died here in great numbers<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are not well remembered<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Which is a little sad<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is nearly forty today<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Which is in advance of Mondays temperature<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By three or four degrees<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Les Arenes<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Nimes France<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>July 2nd 2019\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A statue of a brave bullfighter Stands outside of this arena It is said that he defeated six bulls singlehandedly But that was long ago and today the arena is empty Save for a few tourists and their guides &nbsp; As I pass the arena I note a colourful poster promoting Future pop concerts and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5606"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}